Interest in Immigration Reduction Gaining Ground in Norway

Norway’s Progress Party is gaining in the polls with people supporting the party’s immigration reduction stance. The Party gained 5.8 percent in the polls now sitting less than four percentage points behind the front-running Labor Party. Parliamentary elections will be held in less than six months.

“People are losing their jobs, the economy seems to be going into recession but people are focusing on these issues instead,” said Torkel Brekke, professor of culture studies and oriental languages at the University of Oslo, in a Bloomberg.com story. “It tells you how important issues of identity are to small European countries and how people feel insecure about immigration.”

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